Mexican Communist Party

The Mexican Communist Party (PCM) was a Leninist political party in Mexico which existed from November 1919 to November 1981. It was founded by elements of the Socialist Workers' Party of Mexico (PSO), and Manabendra Nath Roy was its leader. The party was outlawed in 1925 for its communist views, but social democratic President Lazaro Cardenas lifted the ban on the party in 1935. Over the next 30 years, it had some influence in politics, and it merged into the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico in November 1981.